Word: chamberlaine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...niece of deposed Empress Zita of Austria. Crowds gawked at the door of the church, admired the bride's silver lamé gown, the brilliant uniforms of the guests. Almost unnoticed in another part of Vienna was another wedding guest, Britain's onetime Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain. The presence of this British elder statesman with his monocle screwed into his emaciated aristocratic face suggested bigger news than all the empty pageantry of defunct royalty...
...little more than a year ago the cotton market took a terrific one-day tumble. Prices dropped nearly $10 per bale in a few hours. Among the many to whom the "March 11th" break caused deep anguish was South Carolina's Senator Ellison DuRant Smith, self-appointed chamberlain to King Cotton. Forthwith, "Cotton Ed" Smith started an investigation which did not make the front page until a year later...
...Britons does Olympian self-satisfaction sit more easily than on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, chill, patrician Arthur Neville Chamberlain, who has given Britain three budget surpluses in succession. That for 1934-35 helped win for the Conservative Party last year's British general elections. Last week, as fiscal 1935-36 closed, Chancellor Chamberlain let it be known that he had underestimated the surplus by two-thirds, thus doing his bit to reconcile Britons to a walloping rearmament program and a possible budget deficit for 1936-37. Instead of ?5,610,000 ($28,050,000), the 1935-36 surplus...
Nearly all Mr. Chamberlain's income estimates had been superconservative. The Exchequer had received in estate duties approximately ?8,000,000 more than expected; in income taxes an extra ?5,500,000; in customs and excise duties an extra ?8,500,000. Servicing of the national debt had cost ?12,500,000 less than expected, a windfall promptly plowed back into amortization. The only bad news was that Britain's role of watchdog in the Mediterranean during the Italo-Ethiopian War had cost her an unexpected...
Recalling the fact that some months ago Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain- and the then Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel Hoare were major rivals to succeed Squire Baldwin, "Augur" made the direct charge that Mr. Chamberlain and not British public opinion was chiefly responsible for knifing the Hoare-Laval deal which might have made peace between Italy and Ethiopia (TIME, Dec. 30). In the case of the present White Paper, upon which Mr. Chamberlain and Mr. Eden jointly lavished their best efforts, "Augur" charged that this was last week in course of being knifed by Sir Samuel Hoare & friends...